The project was concerned with the procurement and use of cobalt ore in the production of vitreous materials, notably glass, in the workshops the Late Bronze Age Egyptian settlement of Tell el-Amarna. Research methods included chemical analysis using pXRF, LA-ICP-MS and spatial analysis.
Research Topic: "mapping"
Spatial analysis of settlement patterns in Bithynia (A-6-6-1)
DissertationThe doctoral thesis assessed the economic development of ancient Bithynia situated in the North West territory of Asia Minor during the Hellenistic, Roman and Early Byzantine periods. The study drew for the most part on published data, enriched only modestly by research in the field. The main contribution of the work lied in an elaboration, streamlining, analysis and presentation of already known information.
Ancient Egyptian Underworld (C-4-5)
Research projectIn this research project, Daniel Werning investigated the diagrammatic representation of the Ancient Egyptian underworld as attested in the Book of Caverns, an Egyptian Netherworld Book from the 13th century BCE.
The history of positional astronomy (D-1-1-1)
DissertationThe project concerned the history of positional astronomy from the Babylonian sources to their reception by Hipparchus and Ptolemy.
Cognitive perception and the presentation of space and place in Mesoamerica (C-5-8-1)
DissertationThe goal of this Ph.D. research project is to define the historical context in which the Lienzo Seler II was produced through the latest works on the Coixtlahuaca group of documents while considering the ethno-historical, geographical and archaeological data for its interpretation.
Iron mining and smelting in the Tyrrhenian Sea (A-5-4)
Research projectThe project focused on a topo-chronological reassessment of iron smelting on Elba in Antiquity and the environmental impacts of ancient metallurgy on the island.
Landscape Changes due to Grazing (A-4-3)
Research projectThis research project was a follow-up project of the dissertation (A-4-3-1) Mid-Holocene landscape development in the Carpathian region. The project was intended to develop a synthesis of the environmental conditions in the regions of early wool economies. The results acquired so far within the Topoi research group (A-4-) The Textile Revolution were integrated and evaluated from a geoscientific perspective.
Archaeozoological Analyzes of Domestic Sheep (A-4-2)
Research projectThis research project was devoted to the process of a major economic shift in sheep husbandry that by the end of the 4th millennium BC took place in South-West Asia. From that time onwards, sheep management was rather focused on fiber exploitation than on meat and milk, requiring the transformation of sheep with hairy coat to those with a woolly vlies.
Early Use of Wool in the Near East and Europe (A-4-1)
Research projectWithin the scope of this project, two dissertations investigated indirect archaeological evidence of textile production in two separate study areas: the Near East and the South East and Central Europe.
Technical Water Management Measures (A-3-5)
Research projectThis project developed hydrological models that facilitate a differentiated understanding of actual water balance conditions before and as a result of implementation of water management measures in the western Mediterranean region.